20081226 Quick Clean Up of the Wild Life Area

I know it seems a little extreme to be around and about Boxing Day but it was a quiet season, I had the chance to be with someone willing to come along and I was fed up of staying indoor.

So on the spur of the moment we picked-up a couple of bags e we went down the Wild Life Area or as they called it the "Nature Community Garden", to me that sounds fancy and might be better appropriate to some better class of neighbourhood. Yet, what do I know?

I was also feeling a little guilty I wanted to do something there for ages and I did not.

Fresh as it were from the big works done their during the "Breathing Spaces" initiative I thought that the least I could do was to try and keep up with some of the good intentions and resolution the occasion had engendered.

Besides, Less people around offered offered more of a chance for quiet and reflection.

My friend I discovered later, maybe with the cold, had rather shaky hands so most of the pictures have turned out...well...not high quality, but what the heck is the good intention that count!!

After all the works the place look so bare that I am always worried it is an invitation to fly-tipping. Besides every bit of rubbish look evident in all this flatness.

So better to get on with it.

There is still some bramble patch that I managed to have it preserved untouched (so at least some re-colonisers hopefully will spring forward as the seasons progress) but it made for hard going even in this quick dust-over.

I am happy I managed to curb some of the volunteer enthusiasm in this respect a little surprise sprang out when I was going over the Albridge Street end.

The foxlet strolled around peacefully and unhurriedly, I on the other end (and my friend too) started to feel the pinch of cold. It is was time to rp it up and come back to the indulgent embrace of our artificial summer in the human beehive!!